Pencil-clasp



PATENT Qrricn.

GUSTAVUS A. SGHLEOHTER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

PENCIL-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,722, dated April 29, 1884, Application filed November 16, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, GUSTAVUS A. SonLncH- TER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Clasps and Pocket- ?olders, of which the following is a specificaion.

, This improvement relates more particularly to that class of pencil clasps or sockets provided with an attaching-pin and aproteetingtube connected therewith.

The object of the improvement is to furnish a more convenient and positive attachment of the clasp. This I attain by the arrangement and combination of the several parts shown in the drawings herewith, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters indicate similar parts throughout.

. Figure 1 is a'perspective view of the clasp in its complete state ready for attachment. Fig. 2 is a View of the clasp, pin, and presserfoot. Fig. 3 is a view of the pen and eraser holder detached from the clasp; Fig. 4, the pencil detached; Fig. 5 showing the appliance attached to the shirt-front; Fig. 6 showing the appliance partly within and attached to the front of the vest-pocket.

A represents the case or socket; B,.'the head; 0, a longitudinal slot; D, a locking-bead; E, a presser-foot spring; F, the attaching-pin; G, pen and eraser holder; H, the eraser; I,

' interlocking bead; J, catch for pin; K, awriting-pen; L, ordinary wood pencil; M, shirtfront; N, a vest-pocket.

The construction of the apparatus is simple. The shell A is a tube of any suitable metal, having a head, B, attached thereto,a longitudi nal slot, 0, extending from the lower end up to the head. To the head is attached a presser-foot spring, E, adapted to press in'its normal state directly upon the pencil through the slot O;'but when the case is connected with a garment the foot is raised to admit the material between the case andfoot, which, being released, presses down upon the same, and, transferring the pressure through the material,

secures the case and pencil in place. When more security is desired, the pin F is passed the pen end looks with the bead D of the case' internally, and prevents accidental withdrawal of the holder G from the same. Ahook, J, is set transverse of the holder at the pen end,

the shank of the hook sliding freely in the slot O of the case. The normal position of the holder G is with the pen pushed within the [case far enough to interlock the beads D I, in

which position the pointed end of the pin F of the case will be caught in the hook J of the holder. In this position relatively of the case A and holder G the lower end of the case is burnished down to hug closely to the holder.

In use the operation of the several parts are as follows: An ordinary wood-covered pencil is sharpened and its pointed end inserted in the head of the case and pushed within the same until it rests upon the'pen end of the holder G, with the point projecting within the tube of the same. The case thus filled is placed in the vest-pocket, and as the case descends in the pocket the pin F is so directed as to pierce through from the outside to the interior of the pocket, where it is caught in the hook upon the holder G,'the presser-foot spring being also raised so as to catch the top edge of the hand, and to use the pen the holder G is drawn out of the case and reversed end for end, the eraser being entered within the case and the pen protruding ready for use. As the pencil becomes shortened the holder G is shoved higher up within the case until the pencil end will not project above the head B, when a new pencil is introduced.

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The appliance can be secured to the sus- I a presser-foot, E, and pin F, attached to said ponders or shirtfront and used independent head, and having near its slotted end a female of the vest-pocket, in either position being so I head, 1), in combination with a reversible r 5 eurely held and ready for use. holder, G, provided with a maleloeking-bead,

Havingshown theeonstruetion,advantages, I, and a hook or eye, J, adapted to slide in and operation of my improvement, I desire to the slot 0, and its respective ends provided secure by Letters Patent the following claim with a pen and rubber, substantially as and thereon. for the purpose set forth.

A pencil clasp or holder composed of a t-u- GUSTAVU S A. SCHLECHTER. bular body, A, open at both ends, having a 1 \Vitnesses: longitudinal slot, 0, extending from one end I THOMAS P. KINSEY, to a re-enforce head, B, near the opposite end, I F. PIERCE HUMMEL. 

